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Show LIKE THE THOUGHT OF BEING MARTYRS Some Deliberately Seem to Cultivate the Habit. Successes are all right, but it's your failures that make life really worth while if you are really interested inter-ested iu the art of Martyrdom. All that's necessary to make you a topflight top-flight martyr is to convince yourself (a) that you have been wronged, and (b) that you have great Spiritual Qualities. Take business, for instance. You are anxious to put that transaction across, and you go to Smithers and give him your sales talk. He retaliates retali-ates by giving you a super sales talk in which he explains clearly why your schemes are all wet. If you are foolish you put that down as a tough break, and sulk about it. If you are wise you become a Martyr on the Altar of Big Business, and have loads of fun. You convince yourself that you are a Noble Soul not interested In material things, a Soul too good for the crass mercenary mercen-ary world In which you have been placed. People don't appreciate your Spiritual Side. Cultivate the habit of not being appreciated, and in no time you'll be so happy you could sing. Or take sport. You go into a tournament, tour-nament, and take a beating from some duffer who obviously has no more Spiritual Qualities than a side order of spinach. Is your failure due to inability? Nonsense. It's due to your Spiritual Qualities. Think of the people you've been practicing with. Haven't you sacrificed yourself? your-self? Haven't you been playing against Inferior opposition just to give the others joy? Of course you have, If you're worth 2 cents as a martyr. Couldn't you beat anybody in the world if you- concentrated purely on winning instead of playing for the Joy of the Game? And there you are. You're a Noble Soul, and glad yon lost. Did you take a beating at bridge? Didn't you sacrifice yourself and make a fourth when you'd have preferred pre-ferred to be alone communing with your soul? (And maybe you had bad cards, too.) Disappointed in love? Obviously not appreciated for your Finer Side. Not invited to that party when you should have been? Because you refuse to stoop to being a pusher. Of course not everybody in the world can be a martyr, but, be honest with yourself. Aren't you one? Kansas Citv Times. 1 |